Thursday, October 25, 2007

- Rudy Giuliani promises to end illegal immigration from Mexico if elected. He promises to do this by building a complete boarder fence and bumping up the number of boarder patrol officers to 18,000 instead of 12,000. He has no plan how Americans will start washing their own dishes, mowing their own yards, or cooking their own meals once he has eradicated immigrant labor.
- Rudy Giuliani routinely answers his cell phone when addressing large audiences. He says this will no longer be a problem as his wife just taught him how to use the vibration mode on the phone.
- I do not believe I'll be voting for Rudy Giuliani.

Monday, October 22, 2007

- The meteor that killed the dinosaurs ( I forget its name, I can't remember everything) was so devastating because of the total condition of the Earth and where the meteor hit. There was 10 % more oxygen in the atmosphere so the air was more combustible. Also, the meteor hit water about ten meters deep with a layer of sulfur underneath. The sulfur was thrown up into the air and the water instantaneously evaporated, creating acid rain that could burn the flesh off of creatures. 95% percent of the species on Earth were wiped out. That's the species, not of total life. For that the count goes higher. At least I think I have that right. Source is Bill Bryson.

- The amount of pain a person feels and their overall condition when gunshot is highly dependent upon the situation in which they were shot. Soldiers tend to not need as much morphine or medical care and the theory is they have more to look forward to. They get to leave combat, go home, be treated like a hero, etc. People shot randomly have much less to look forward to: lost work time, medical bills, possible death, etc. This leads people randomly shot close to home to beg for drugs to numb physical and emotional pain. Of course all this is null and void if the gunshot is fatal, no matter who the victim be. Source: radio lab.

Tuesday, October 16, 2007

-It's really hard to keep posting on this thing.
-Korean mosquitoes can squeeze through Korean window screens.
- I think I learn a foreign language better when I learn it slowly over a long period of time.
-Koreans do not take the air raid sirens seriously.